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Limits to Absolute Power:Eminent Domain and the Right to Land in India

by Preeti Sampat Economic and Political Weekly, May 11, 2013 As the conflict over land assumes a central dynamic within the “growing Indian economy”, forcible acquisition, or the state’s power of eminent domain, is critical to various political and economic calculations. This paper discusses the doctrine of eminent domain in the context of dispossession and [...]

The Land Governance Assessment Framework : Identifying and Monitoring Good Practice in the Land Sector

by Deininger, Klaus; Selod, Harris; Burns, Anthony. (2012) The World Bank Seventy-five percent of the world’s poor live in rural areas and most are involved in agriculture. In the 21st century, agriculture remains fundamental to economic growth, poverty alleviation, and environmental sustainability. The World Bank’s Agriculture and rural development publication series presents recent analyses of [...]

Long-term Effects of Land Reform on Human Capital Accumulation Evidence from West Bengal

Klaus Deininger,  Songqing Jin,  and Vandana Yadav Working Paper No. 2011/82 We use data on inter-generational gains in educational attainment by some 500,000 individuals in 200 West Bengal villages to explore gender-differentiated impacts of land reform on human capital accumulation at the individual level. While there are significant gains (of about 0.3 years for males) [...]

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